CORTEZ, CARLOS

(1939 - )

(real name, Carlos Cuttler)

   clean-cut young actor of the '60s. He was born in Mexico but educated in the U.S., including studies with Lee Strasberg. As Carlos Cuttler, he had a small role in Splendor in the Grass and worked on TV in programs like "The Naked City," but came back to Mexico under contract to Gregorio Walerstein, in 1961. Cortez (sometimes billed as "Carlos Cortés") had leads in minor films - mostly Westerns like El robo del tren correo (The Mail Train Robbery, 1964) - and supporting roles in others, into the '70s.